Melbourne, Australia · Graduating Nov 2026

Software engineer building practical AI and data systems.

Final-year RMIT Software Engineering student building AI and data systems through enterprise POCs, production reporting and stakeholder discovery.

  • Enterprise POC ownership
  • Production AI workflows
  • Python / SQL / React
Idris Aklan

Work

Selected work

CDC-without-CDC replication engine

Engineering owner, with support from senior engineers · Aviation client, reusable across enterprises

A from-scratch replication engine that detects change on source systems with no native CDC, using hierarchical hashing to land Fivetran-format SCD2 history in Snowflake.

Validated end to end; production rollout was in progress when I left.

  • Distributed Systems
  • Data Engineering
  • Snowflake
  • OpenFlow / NiFi

CI/CD governance for AI objects

CI/CD hardening owner, supported by the framework owner and mentors · Senior engineer's AI governance framework, for enterprise client adoption

Hardened an AI governance framework for Snowflake semantic views and Cortex agents: a CI drift guard, a Snowsight-to-git capture step, and a human approval gate before irreversible production deploys.

Framework adopted by multiple organisations; hardening changes merged upstream.

  • MLOps
  • CI/CD
  • GitOps
  • Snowflake Cortex
  • Governance

Operational control board

Delivery owner, supported by a cross-functional team · Aviation client

A Streamlit and Snowflake operational control board with near real-time refresh, built through iterative consultation with designers, analysts, and engineers, and adopted for operations alignment.

In production, providing a shared operational view across three groups.

  • Streamlit
  • Snowflake
  • Data Apps
  • Stakeholder Delivery

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Experience

Where I have worked

Solutions & Support Engineering Intern Snowflake

Feb 2026 - Present

Client-facing proof-of-concept delivery: turning ambiguous enterprise requirements into Snowflake AI and data solutions, demos, and implementation roadmaps.

  • Snowflake Cortex
  • Streamlit
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Apache NiFi (OpenFlow)
  • CI/CD

Data Engineering & Analytics Intern RMIT University

Jul 2025 - Feb 2026

Analytics-engineering delivery and technical judgment: data-quality governance, executive reporting, and platform feasibility.

  • dbt
  • Snowflake
  • Power BI
  • SQL
  • Python
  • CI/CD

Software Developer Intern IT Boost Australia

Feb 2025 - May 2025

Full-stack delivery in a small startup: a real-time platform owned end to end, from frontend to deployment.

  • React
  • Node.js
  • Socket.IO
  • MySQL
  • Nginx
  • Linux VPS

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About

About

I'm a final-year Software Engineering student at RMIT, finishing in November 2026. I build software at the intersection of product, data, and AI, and I have internship experience across Snowflake, RMIT, and a startup.

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Contact

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Open to graduate and early-career software, AI, and data engineering roles. The fastest way to reach me is email.